A Escrava Isaura 8.60 · 8.60

The narrator underlines the performance: Leôncio speaks 'com a maior brandura e tranquillidade,' with the greatest mildness and calm. The composure is itself the weapon — he had resolved to meet her anger with cold, unruffled indifference, and mildness here is not gentleness but strategy.

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